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...test would be truer, of course, if the veterans had chosen "Pygmalion' or some other Shavian comedy. But the only available local theater is Sanders, which once frightened Charles Addams, and no comedy could hope to overcome its intense and ancient gloom. Its other limitations, such as the absence of a curtain and the lack of opportunity for an imaginative set designer to cut loose, have also contributed to the selection of the plays, none of which requires more than a suggestive skeleton of scenery...
With unmistakable Shavian gusto, G. B. S. himself swept aside the first block on the road to the Veterans' Theater Workshop's "Saint Joan" last night. Replying to a Workshop request for permission to do the play here, Shaw cabled: "DELIGHTED TO HEAR ST JOAN BEING DONE AT HARVARD STOP HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE JOAN PLAYED BY MALE...
...cold character perfectly. John L. Lewis dashed out of his chair after each exposure, dashed out of the room the fourth time. George Bernard Shaw gave Karsh five minutes when he sat down. But when he found out that Karsh was an Armenian by birth, he gave him a Shavian shaving: "I have many friends among the Armenians, but to keep them strong and healthy they should be exterminated every little while." Later he gave Karsh all the time he wanted...
Edward Finnegan, and elderly gentleman who naturally portrays the elderly Major Petkoff, seems the only character capable of conjuring up any comedy. The others, in their assorted attempts to build emotional rhapsodies, burlesque the Shavian wit rather than convey it. Settings, neatly done by Matt Horner, demonstrate his expertness and the effects achievable by an outfit operating on a shoe-string basis...
...Unsocial Socialist (1883) is the most Shavian of the three reprinted novels. " 'Of course, she has proposed to you, and you have refused,' " says a scornful maiden to Sidney Trefusis, the hero. " 'On the contrary,' " he says. " 'I proposed, and she accepted. That is why I have to hide.' " Trefusis is a wealthy Socialist who disguises himself as a workman, lives in a gaudy ancestral mansion full of trapezes, plaster statues and carpenter's tools. He serves as a mouthpiece for Author Shaw, then a poverty-stricken young Socialist who wandered around London...